Sunday Morning Worship
Generally, in the first part of our morning service our musicians and worship team lead us into praise and worship in a wide variety of musical styles. These range from well-loved traditional hymns, through familiar songs and choruses of the last thirty years to the best of contemporary worship. This reflects the wide age and outlook range to be found within our fellowship.
The second part of our service is usually given over to prayer and preaching. During this time young people split up according to age and go off to specially planned activities with their leaders, returning near the end of the service. Many recent sermons are available as podcasts.
From time to time a lighter style of worship allows us to enjoy the company of our young people throughout.
Worship: A Biblical Perspective - David Slater
We are in the presence of God all the time, not only when we are at worship. So coming to worship is not 'coming into the presence of God'. We can worship God anywhere and at any time. When we do so together we may or may not be in a so-called Church building. In fact, Biblically, the church building is neither here nor there—in the NT, it is the people who are 'the temple of the Holy Spirit' not any kind of building.
It is the spiritual act of worship that is significant not the place where you do it. In terms of what we do to worship God, there is a long list of things. We sing, we pray, we let God‘s word fuel our worship by reading it, we adore God, bless him, talk to him about the things that trouble us, break bread together and listen to the word of God being explained.
We are to give thanks to God for all his love and blessings in our lives and confess our sins so that we are cleansed. The Bible encourages us to tell one another what God has been doing in our lives and to declare publicly the greatness of God. We can even do that out in the open air rather than inside any particular building. In NT times, people would come with a song, a Bible verse, a testimony, use the gifts they had received from the Holy Spirit and worship God that way.
